This compact 8 x 2 LCD with backlight, is great for small microcontroller projects where you want more than just a blinking LED for feedback. This unit uses the standard HD44780 parallel interface and features a black bezel.
This little 8-character, 2-line parallel liquid crystal display is used in Orangutan robot controllers. It uses the common HD44780 interface, so sample interface code is widely available for a variety of microcontrollers. This is the smallest package we know of for this familiar interface. Datasheet is available here.
You can find sample HD44780 LCD interface code written sample code for AVRs (e.g. ATmega168, ATmega328, ATmega324, and ATmega1284) can be found as part of the open-source Orangutan-lib package and as part of the Pololu AVR library.